as you may know, the 5th European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA) will take place in Paderborn, Germany, from July 4th to 6th 2018. The conference is supported by the European Association for Data Science and devoted to theoretical as well as application-oriented research on topics in the realm of data science, with a specific focus on data analytics. In the last couple of years, it has attracted around 200 researchers and practitioners from statistics, data analysis, machine learning, knowledge discovery, and related fields. For more information about the conference, please visit the website at http://www.ecda2018.de.

As part of the ECDA conference, I am organizing a special session on „Bioinformatics and Biostatistics„. Being aware of your scientific achievements and important contributions relevant to this topic, it is my pleasure to invite you to give a presentation in the session. Here is some relevant information you might be interested in:

— To give a talk, you only need to send a title and abstract, i.e., no full paper is required. The abstract submission deadline is April 1st. When submitting the abstract, please make sure you mark it as a contribution to the special session. Of course, you also need to register for the conference, once your abstract is accepted.

— Full papers will be published as post-proceedings in the newly launched Journal „Archives of Data Science, Series A“ after the conference. Submission to the post-proceedings is offered to all participants, but is not compulsory. Submitted papers will undergo a standard review process.

— The normal time slot for a talk in a session will be around 20-25 minutes.

— Invited contributions to special sessions will be marked as such in the conference programme.

I sincerely hope you will accept this invitation. Should you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

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Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:09:12 +0000http://heiderlab.de/?p=1200Our new project „Verbraucherreaktionen bei Plastik und dessen Vermeidungsmöglichkeiten am Point of Sale“ (VerPlaPoS) has been started in October 2017 and will be funded for three years by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is a collaborative research project of the city of Straubing, the University of Applied Science Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, the University of Stuttgart, the University of Marburg, and the Ludwig Stocker Hofpfisterei GmbH. The goal of the project is the development of concrete recommendations for the reduction of plastic use.

The starting point is the consumer, which is forced to use products with plastic. It is almost impossible to shop without the use of plastics, however, consumer can be influenced to choose products with reduced use of plastics. The abondonment of plastic bags is just one example.

The project VerPlaPos will analyze the potential of plastic reduction at the point of sale. To this end, we will make use of examples from food and textiles. We will investigate mitigation strategies, in particular

Analyses of consumer behavior during the shopping of products with plastics

Development of strategies to reduce the use of plastics in the supply chains

Assessment and evaluation of plastic alternatives

The Bioinformatics department of the University of Marburg is responsible for the development of the IT infrastructure, data analyses, as well as for the development of mobile apps for the consumers.

FundingThe work is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:29:17 +0000http://heiderlab.de/?p=1189Theo gave a talk at the BBCC in Naples on our tool SEDE-GPS.

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Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:16:41 +0000http://heiderlab.de/?p=1176Dominik is member of the program commitee of the ECDA 2018 in Paderborn.

ECDA was launched in 2013 and emerged from the annual conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl). It is supported by the European Association for Data Science (EuADS), the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), the German Computer Science Society (GI), as well as other European classification societies (British Classification Society (BCS), Section on Classification and Data Analysis of the Polish Statistical Association (SKAD), Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society (CLADAC), Japanese Classification Society (JCS)). ECDA 2018 includes the 42nd Annual Meeting of the GFKl Data Science Society and the Symposium on Data Science Education of the European Association for Data Science (EuADS).